Erik Spoelstra Quotes

I find it quite funny to see players rolling over trying to win free-kicks or get opponents booked. I've never done that, even at an early age. My friends would have just laughed at me.

A lot of players try to buy penalties, and sometimes defenders can't do a lot about it.

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands.

It just wasn't right the way they were behind by 25 points and then they're told to hold the ball.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

I don't dive. I'm not a player who dives.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

If someone makes contact with you, it is a foul, and you are going to go down.

Why should I change my game if I don't even get a yellow card?

Opponents know how to get the fouls and it's gone against me a couple of times.

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit at all and are just flailing around like a fish out of water.

There are pitfalls in World Cups, there are players who can win penalties and players who get the slightest touch and go down holding their face or whatever and get someone sent off. There are all these little things and you're hoping that you're not on the wrong end of it.

I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

I went for a tackle with Radamel Falcao against Colombia, and he just dropped to the floor. I said to him 'Just get up!'

There are a lot of bad Divas on SmackDown that like to cheat a little bit.

The Argentinians provoke and are always whingeing to the referee to try and change his opinion. It starts before the match. You see their body language, how they gesticulate, how they try to influence the referee. That is not part of the game. That is a lack of respect. It's their mentality and character, and we'll have to adjust.

If you watch me play, you'll see how often I get kicked. I don't go off the pitch and cut myself to act like I've been kicked.

I don't get wrapped up in the politics of going down to win a penalty or getting an opponent sent off.

I think if you deflate a football, then you're definitely cheating.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.